The case was settled after the verdict to avoid appeal and speed up payment to the plaintiff, so I’m sure they didn’t get the entire amount. But I’m also sure it was a good bit higher than the $3.4 million they reportedly offered prior to trial.

Now that they have the fancy new sequential blinkers, you can’t stop Audi drivers from using them to show off.

There was a lawsuit in the Dallas, Texas area against a repair shop that didn’t do any welds when replacing a hail damaged roof on a Honda Fit. The next owners got into a wreck and the roof buckled, trapping a man and woman in the car as it caught fire and burned them (they survived). A jury awarded the couple $31.5…

Admittedly, it didn’t happen to me, but when they were talking about passing a new law to reign in abusive HOAs, such an example was made in at least one article. I will admit that those articles could have been wrong or that I could have misunderstood.

We have an HOA, and they are wildly inconsistent in enforcement. I don’t think they take any action unless someone complains about something. My next-door neighbor had his Mustang parked in their driveway or out on the street for a couple of years with missing front bumper, grille, headlights, etc. After i sat out…

Where I live, if enough of your neighbors decide and vote to form an HOA, you’re going along whether you want to or not.

“That is why the President has always scoffed at the tax system and said you need to change the tax laws. You can make a large income and not have to pay large amount of taxes.”

Because the bulk of people don’t even really know what tariffs are, let alone how they’re applied. And because it’s hidden in the prices of things rather than paid directly, it doesn’t directly effect them enough to merit further study by most. Tax policy isn’t exactly exciting in any form.

I was such a Porsche snob back when these were new. I didn’t consider the 924 or 944 to be true Porsches at all, a symptom I inherited from my Dad who started the 1980s in a 911SC and ended them in a 911 Turbo factory slope-nose (and had at least two 928s and two other 911 Turbos during the decade).

I remember my Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo being very fast for the time, and it had a reported 6.6 second 0-60 time. These days, you could almost match that in a modern minivan.

You’ve been relatively close to murders (more than one) without having been involved? As far as I know, I have never been within 30 meters or so of a murder at the time it occurred. And, if I had, I would think the police would want a word with me (as a witness at the very least), especially if, as in this case, it…

Well yes. And that the person who was later found guilty of the murder has his phone pinging right in the area of the murder at the time of the murder.

Lady in my hometown spent over a year in jail on murder charges only to ultimately be exonerated by her cellphone records showing her elsewhere at the time of the murder.

My wife is consistently a passenger in her own car since I tend to drive her car when we go somewhere together. And there are times when I’m the passenger and use her phone to reply to a text or to get map information.

Thank goodness we don’t live in one of those.

People are really complicating my plans to buy the Faraday Future name for my robot porn company.

I’ve often noted that self-checkout didn’t really replace a cashier with a machine but rather moved the cashier’s job to the customer.

The site I was looking at had it broken down by grid area, so it lumped a lot of states together (and it listed the average CO2 pollutants released vs. the national average). By that grouping, New York was the cleanest.

Depending on where the manufacturing plant is would also potentially make a large difference. The East and West Coasts (not counting Georgia and Florida), in general, gets far more of their energy from cleaner sources than the mid-west or Appalachia.

I wonder has there ever been a time when subsidies to business were not commonly available in the US in some form or another?